Congenital leukaemia after heavy abuse of permethrin during pregnancy

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Borkhardt, A [1 ]
Wilda, M [1 ]
Fuchs, U [1 ]
Gortner, L [1 ]
Reiss, I [1 ]
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[1] Childrens Univ Hosp Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD-FETAL AND NEONATAL EDITION | 2003年 / 88卷 / 05期
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10.1136/fn.88.5.F436
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R72 [儿科学];
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A single case is described of congenital leukaemia with 11q23/MLL rearrangement in a preterm female newborn. Because of arachnophobia, the mother had heavily abused aerosolised permethrin, a widely used household insecticide. Permethrin is considered comparatively safe, but, in view of the mother's history, its potential to induce cleavage of the MLL gene in cell culture was tested. Incubation of the BV173 cell line with 50 muM permethrin readily induced MLL cleavage.
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